On Wednesday, 29 September 1999 at 13:41:42 +1000, John Saunders wrote:
> In freebsd-current you wrote:
>>> Being in the hardware RAID business myself I cannot help asking: why do you
>>> want to loose the hardware RAID in favor of a software solution? Flexibility
>>> (just guessing) or price maybe?
>
>> Because DPT has screwed this customer over for the last time...
>
> I suspect that back porting the ida (Compaq SMART RAID) driver from
> -current to 3.x would be both quicker and cheaper that the software
> development you propose. At least that way you don't have to deal
> with DPT.
>
> Any software additions to support hot swap and auto-rebuild would need
> to interoperate with vinum. From my understanding, vinum will survive
> a failed disk and continue to run. However no mechanism is yet available
> to automatically rebuild a new disk.
Correct. At the moment it needs to be done manually. That's what Rod
is asking for.
Greg
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